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bombyxes

bombyxes is the plural of bombyx.

Meaning of bombyx

Noun

bombyx (plural bombyxes)

  1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.
    • Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to annouce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire. This situation is true also in the case of insects, for example, in the female of the bombyx butterfly[.]1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 80

Questions about bombyxes

What is bombyxes the plural of?
Bombyxes is the plural of bombyx.

Words near bombyxes in the dictionary

  1. bombykols
  2. bombyliid
  3. bombyliids
  4. bombylious
  5. bombyx
  6. bombyxes
  7. bombyxin
  8. bombyxins
  9. bombé
  10. BOMDAS
  11. bomdong

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